Voicemail to Text - SpinVox
SpinVox is a great service that offers transcribed voicemails to text, both via e-mail and text message. They aren’t available U.S. wide at this point but they did just land a deal to leverage their “Voice-to-Screen” services (as they call it) with Cincinnati Bell’s customer base. They also are taking on select trial accounts for U.S. consumers. And I’m in, baby.
I typically miss most of my voicemails throughout the day due to meetings and more generally just because I am busy at work. I often have a backlog and it’s frustrating to have to sort through them. SpinVox is changing all of that.
My new voicemails are now transcribed and sent to my e-mail address. Since I’m using Gmail, they filter straight into a label (”voicemail”) and are searchable. Searchable voicemails, now that is cool. Below follows a test message I just left for myself:
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Testing 1,2,3. I am testing SpinVox, so how good are you at translating this. Ha ha ha ha ha, can you translate that laugh, ha ha ha ha ha.
- Powered by SpinVox.
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Message received at Mar 6, 2007 3:02:06 PM
SpinVox also offers the option of voicemail-to-text message but I’ve not opted for that right now because I figure most of them would go over the character limit and require two separate text messages.
I do like the fact that I can still listen to my voicemails, if I want to be “old school”. I can even access each message directly via message number (e.g., press “*04″ to access message four).
Voicemail to text is going to be huge and SpinVox is leading the charge. Check out SimulScribe for a similar service. If you know of others, please share in the comments section.
March 7, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Im using spinvox right now too. Their voicemail to text message service works great. It just splits up the message into several different texts and sends them to you in the right order. Have you seen their spin my blog service? Its like the voicemail to text, but for your blog.
March 22, 2007 at 8:53 am
Ken, yes, I’m taking public credit in being your first SpinVox call, beyond the calls you make to yourself. ;)
July 4, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Only problem i’ve found with the service is if the message is long it splits it up into multiple text messages which don’t all arrive at the same time.
April 6, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I’ve been testing voicecloud.com which is free during beta. Works great with my blackberry as I can just have the text emailed to me and the .WAV file for the audio. No need to use SMS because long messages all come in as one email.